Zhang then collaborated with Chen Kaige, the latter acting as director, to photograph one of the defining Chinese films of the 1980s, Yellow Earth (1984), later to be considered the inauguration film for the Chinese Fifth-Generation directors.

Upon completing this film, Zhang then made To Live (1994; Cannes Best Actor for Ge You), a film based on the acclaimed novel by Yu Hua, which is an epic framework about the resilience of the ordinary Chinese folks, personified by its two leads, amidst three generations of historical upheavals throughout the 20th century.

Zhang's succeeding major project was the ambitious wuxia drama Hero (2002), which follows after his second film in a series about modern Chinese city-life, Happy Times (2000).

Zhang Zai was one of the pioneers of the Song dynasty philosophical movement called "Study of the Way," often known as Neo-Confucianism.

In 1069 Zhang was recommended to the emperor and given a position in the capital, but not long after he ran into conflict with the prime minister and retired home to Hengqu, where he spent his time in retirement studying and teaching.

Zhang theorized that the physical nature obscures the original nature, preventing it from being fulfilled, and this is what causes people to stray from the path of goodness.

Zhang is a sturdy 48-year-old fellow with thick eyebrows, a warm smile and what he describes as "so-so" skills in house painting and carpentry.

Zhang's sworn statement, given in 1998 when he first filed his case with a U.S. immigration court, here's what happened after he was rejected at the embassy in 1982: He was sentenced in China to two years at a labor camp near his native city of Tianjin.

Zhang, as he pleads the case that he is "looking for safe haven" but deeply scared by now of ending up in "a Chinese communist jail," it seems to me that surely America could find a little more room for those who risk so much to come over the wall.

Zhang Qian was an officer of the Han imperial guard and he had volunteered for a critical mission.

Zhang Qian was surprised by the wealth of these lands, particularly their jade, their agricultural products like grapes and wine, which were unknown in China, and their powerful and magnificent horses.

Zhang Qian also found that these countries were quite interested in the Chinese goods he and his party carried.

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Zhang He(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)

Under Lord Cao CaoZhang He was appointed as Auxiliary and titled Lord of a Capital Precinct.

Cao Pi promoted Zhang He to General of Right and Lord of Fief and his was feared by Zhuge Liang and Shu.

In the year AD 231 when Liang was retreating from battle because of lack of supplies Zhang He forced Wei Yan to a flight and pursued them the way to Mu Men.

Zhang has been probing the details of epigenetic modifications and their roles in fundamental biology and disease.

Zhang and his colleagues have built the foundation for understanding the interactions between the different types of markers that change DNA packaging in ways that silence or activate genes, such as the addition of small acetyl, methyl, phosphate, and ubiquitin molecules.

Zhang is also Professor in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Zhang Ziyi's playfulness is evident on the set of her new film Warrior, which is a relief, or possibly an inevitability, considering the conditions.

Impulsive, naughty, poised yet childlike, Zhang is the daughter of an economist father and a kindergarten teacher mother, and is a native Beijinger.

Rumors have circulated since the filming that she and Zhang Yimou were conjugating together, but they both refer to each other as "good friends." It's the Zhang Yimou factor that remains both her agony and ecstasy: hard as she tries to exuviate his influence, her contemporaries insist she's defined by it.

ZHANG Yimou was assigned to the Guanxi studio, which had been founded in 1974, towards the end of the Cultural Revolution.

ZHANG Yimou had long wanted to direct himself and was able to do so by transferring in 1985 from Guanxi studio to the X'ian studio, then run by the imaginative and entrepreneurial WU Tianming.

ZHANG Yimou followed up RED SORGHUM with a more conventional action picture, OPERATION COUGAR, depicting the hijacking of an airliner, but returned to form with JU DOU and RAISE THE RED LANTERN, both intense and beautifully shot period pieces that were nominated for Oscars as Best Foreign Language Film in 1990 and 1991.

Zhang He styled Junyi was a man from He Jian Mo. During the end of the Han, help was needed to quell the Yellow Turbans.

The prefectures of Nan An, Tian Shui and An Ding revolted to Zhuge Liang.

Zhang He could recognize the situation and improvise; he was virtuous in his camps; understanding the nature of battle and knowledgeable in the terrains; able to come up with stratagems; Zhuge Liang and the others feared him.

Zhang will gladly lug his instrument and its 160-pound case to New York City for his debut there on May 18 at 8 p.m.

Zhang was one of four winners selected at the YCA Auditions from a pool of more than 300 other instrumentalists from 42 countries.

The YCA victory was a culmination of years of practice, said Zhang, who started playing the double bass at the age of nine and began studying at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music at the age of 11.

Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao first made an impact on the international figure skating scene at the Salt Lake Olympics, where their spectacular double twist in the short program made the audience gasp.

The Zhangs sometimes perform a quadruple twist lift, a move in which the man throws his partner into the air and then catches her by her torso after she's completed four revolutions.

The ISU ratified the feat and declared Zhang and Zhang as the first pair to have done the quad twist at a senior world championships (though Gordeyeva and Grinkov had actually done it at the 1987 World Championships).

Zhang was born in Xi’an in 1951 to parents of "bad" class background and reportedly sold his own blood to buy his first camera.

Zhang’s visual storytelling is evident in his early work as cinematographer.

According to the cinematographer’s notes by Zhang in the script, this moment is visualised as the final movement in a fl and white symphony, reaching personal enlightenment after the darkness of death, war and imprisonment.

Zhang He of Hejian was originally an officer under Yuan Shao, but he defected to Cao Cao's side before the battle of Guan Du.

During an archery contest, Zhang He proved his skill with the long bow by hitting the bull's eye of a target while riding a horse in the opposite direction.

Zhang He was killed in an arrow ambush while pursuing Wei Yan in the year 231.

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Brand New Malaysian: Zhang He - The Chinese cultural ambassador(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)

In the scale of number of souls these men commanded during their expeditions, Zhang He did indeed dwarf Magellan, whose 250 crew members and 5 ships were miniscule compared to the Chinese Admiral's 30,000 men and over 300 ships at its height.

Zhang He's was an unsurmountable naval force at his time with no known equal.

Irony abound, my maternal grandfather originated from the Malabar coast, quite near Calicut, where Zhang He was said to have visited in search of the famed Malabar fl pepper and port of call for Chinese trading ships, as documented by Moroccan traveller Ibn-Battuta.